Re: [Proposal] Forget PAM, stick with NSS
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 05:51:45PM +0200, Thomas Quinot wrote:
> Le 1999-08-01, Wichert Akkerman écrivait :
>
> > PAM and NSS are very different beasts and complement each other. Let me
>
> True. PAM provides authentication services, while NSS is specialised
> in database lookups. On the other hand, while both are simultaneously
> useful in some situations, we should be careful not to unnecessarily
> duplicating functionality. I am specifically referring to the pam_pwdb
> module here, which was essentially NSS replicated as a PAM module.
Which is why the pwdb module is not to be used by default in any Debian
packages. The pam_unix module should be the default for any PAM
applications.
Please go back and read the -devel archives which covered this extensively
about a month or two ago.
Ben
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